Democracy for dunces 101 on July 18, 2018The cacophony of politicking is coming to a fever pitch in the runup to July 25. And while a largely unprincipled media has the vast majority of the nation hooked onto a daily staple of leader this and party that, nobody stops to ask whether the entire exercise is merely to affect a transfer of […]
Our fleeting moral outrage; our collective social amnesia on October 28, 2017A baby was delivered on the streets of Lahore after the mother was turned away from a public hospital. The ticker-happy media locks on to the story, and viewers are up in arms. What a disgrace. Have the doctors no shame? Political hotshots followed soon after as primetime rolls in, this exposes the hollowness of […]
Partition Alternative Perspectives on September 7, 2017At 70, Pakistan is beset with fraught relations in its immediate neighborhood, especially with India, the main source of civil-military imbalance in our polity. While both Pakistan and India may potentially have a lot to gain by cooperating on trade, natural resources and climate change, the overarching reality is a perpetual standoff with nuclear implications. […]